So I have realized that one of the reasons I haven't been able to create a well-recieved article is because I always bite off more than I can chew. So I'm gonna try and go the opposite route by writing short articles that centre around a simple premise while still containing the narrative and quality requirements expected from a post-S1 article.

This post will be less about the idea behind the anomalous object and more about the concept behind the article itself. This means reading the 'The Narrative' collapsible is not necessary, but may be useful if you have questions.

Everything in the article besides two post-description documents will be in standard format.

The containment procedures, while important to the article, have little influence over its concept.

The description reveales that the SCP in this designation is actually a cognitohazardous audio recording contained within a past iteration of the article itself. This past iteration was determined to be unauthorized, inaccurate and harmful to personnel. After the description, the series of events leading up to this determination and the article's rewriting are described.

After this is the article's first non-standard format element: a fully-narrated cognitohazard-clandestine replication of the audio log itself. The audio log acts as the original iteration's main body and attempts to justify this choice of format in the special containment procedures. The log ends by saying the Site head of field operations has authorized a raid on a supposedly relevant warehouse. Listeners may notice a strange sound towards the end of the log. A transcript will also be provided.

The last part of the article is locked behind a reader-accessible Level 3 clearance collapsible. In it, it is revealed that the strange sound in the audio log a sped-up and pitch-shifted cry for help from a missing member of Foundation personnel. The message has three main points: the personnel member in question is trapped in a chronospatial anomaly by a powerful entity which is using their body to create the audio log; this is the only way they know how to deliver this message without the entity knowing; and the warehouse is a trap.

The collapsible (and article) ends by saying that an MTF was sent to the warehouse prior to the audio log's analysis, and the Foundation lost contact with it as soon as it entered.

SCP-XXXX is an audio log that was found on the Foundation database. The log itself was part of an unauthorized article describing a nonexistent SCP, apparantly uploaded through a missing Foundation researcher's account. The log's narrator was determined to be the owner of the account. The log claimed that it had to be in audio form because the SCP in question had the anomalous capability of imbuing any text describing with cognitohazardous properties. The log ended by claiming that the director of the site it was being held at had authorized a raid on a warehouse (where a GOI which was relevant to the article's SCP was supposedly operating). A few days after the article was uploaded, an MTF was sent to the location specified. Contact with the MTF was lost immediatly after entering the warehouse.

Depite all the unusual things about this article, it was not reported until the Foundation's monthly database hazard scan, which revealed the presence of a strong sonic cognitohazard which made its listeners several times more likely not to question its presence or content. This cognitohazard was responsible for it not being reported despite being unauthorized1, as well as the deployment of an MTF despite the orders not being given directly.

After the article is hazard-expunged, an unusual sound is found in the audio log itself. Upon running it through several audio effects and techniques, it is found that the sound is a sped-up and pitch shifted message, also by a voice similar to that of the account's owner, warning that the main log is the work of a powerful anomalous entity and that the warehouse is a trap.

Thank you very much for reading. Apologies if it was a bit longer than you were expecting.

Footnotes

1. For the purpose of smoothing a plot hole, I'm making it part of the article's standalone canon that all database moderators are to read at least halfway through an article before reporting it.

So I'm gonna try and go the opposite route by writing short articles that centre around a simple premise while still containing the narrative and quality requirements expected from a post-S1 article.

Uh… then it's kind of ironic how long your concept post here is? It feels like you're adding a lot more to this than is really necessary, especially with all the iterations, reveals, In-Universe page locks, incident notes with the MTF/warehouse/Site head/field ops, etc.

I'll be completely honest with you, I had a very hard time attempting to parse the content and the narrative. General note: if you have more than one semicolon in a sentence, that's too many semicolons. Example:

The message has three main points: the personnel member in question is trapped in a chronospatial anomaly by a powerful entity which is using their body to create the audio log; this is the only way they know how to deliver this message without the entity knowing; and the warehouse is a trap.

As such, my primary reaction is "this is excessively complicated and as a result, I lose interest before I can apply myself to figuring out what's going on here". If this snippet is indicative of how the eventual article will be, I can't say that I'm excited to read the eventual article about this stuff.

Overall, it feels like you're focusing a ton on the presentation of the article rather than the concept itself, which from what I tried to piece together was "anomalous cognitohazard with some Foundation history added, and there's a spooky cry for help at the end after you read a bunch more history stuff". This seems to rely a lot on the reader being interested in jumping through the hoops obfuscating the narrative, and to me it feels like the story payoff ("someone is held captive by some sort of monster thing, help them please") doesn't really match the need to go through such a complex series of details and background points.

Granted, this might make for a pretty good tale; I just don't know if the audience will like an SCP document that has so many things to keep track of.